Major surgery linked to accelerated memory loss in 1 in 7 older adults

Older adults undergoing major surgery face accelerated memory loss, impacting cognitive function and quality of life in a significant portion of this vulnerable population.

For generations, the risks of major surgery have been measured in wounds, infections, and recovery times — but a quieter consequence has been gathering in the data. New research suggests that roughly one in seven older adults who undergo major surgical procedures experience an accelerated loss of memory in the months and years that follow, a finding that invites medicine to reckon with what it has long left unasked. The operating room, it turns out, may reshape not only the body but the mind — and the elderly, already navigating the gradual uncertainties of age, may bear that cost most silentl

Major surgery linked to accelerated memory loss in 1 in 7 older adults

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